Translation for "absent-minded" to spanish

Absent-minded

adjective

• distraído
• abstraído
• olvidadizo

Translation examples

distraído adjective

he was clumsy; and a little absent-minded.
era torpe y un poco distraído.

He looked away, as if absent-minded.
Apartó la mirada, como distraído.

Seem a little absent-minded tonight.
Pareces un poco distraído esta noche.

He was preoccupied and seemed absent-minded;
Estaba preocupado y parecía distraído;

People are absent-minded. They're involved.
Lo que pasa es que la gente es distraída.

he looked worried and absent-minded.
Parecía distraído y preocupado.

I was merely obstinate, absent-minded.
Tan sólo he sido obstinado, distraído.

In his solitude he was growing absent-minded.
En su soledad, se estaba volviendo distraído.

You've been very absent-minded lately.
Últimamente andas muy distraído.

abstraído adjective

Stella seemed absent-minded and quiet.
Stella estaba como abstraída y callada.

She tossed mattresses around with the absent-minded grace of a plate spinner.
Volteaba los colchones con la abstraída elegancia de un malabarista.

I had learned already from Mademoiselle Virginie that he was absent-minded.
Sabía ya por mademoiselle Virginie que era un hombre muy abstraído.

At work, Shanita notices that Charis is more absent-minded than usual.
En el trabajo, Shanita se da cuenta de que Charis está más abstraída que de costumbre.

She had the same affable but absent-minded attitude towards West now, too.
También con West mostraba esa misma actitud afable pero abstraída.

In the space of only a few years Glo had turned into a bumbling and absent-minded incompetent.
En pocos años, Glo se había convertido en un holgazán y abstraído incompetente.

Sister Clodagh herself was sometimes curiously absent-minded as she read the prayers;
A la propia hermana Clodagh se la veía en ocasiones curiosamente abstraída mientras leía sus oraciones;

From a distance, Brighton looked short, and his countenance suggested an absent-minded professor of mathematics.
Desde una distancia, Brighton parecía bajo, y su semblante sugería un abstraído profesor de matemáticas.

If he was at all agitated or absent-minded, he might not be as careful as usual when he negotiated the bridge over the ditch.
Si hubiera estado agitado o abstraído, no habría sido tan cuidadoso como de ordinario cuando cruzó el puente sobre la zanja.

The lash of the shot was like a comment, while he noted in an absent-minded way that he had scored a hit on the middle target a little off bull's-eye.
El ruido del disparo, semejante a un latigazo, sirvió de comentario a las palabras del mayor. A pesar de hallarse abstraído, el tirador observó que había conseguido hacer una marca junto al centro del blanco.

olvidadizo adjective

Most people thought that Manies was really forgetful, but I was convinced that it was one of his affectations. He was entirely too alert to be genuinely absent-minded.
La mayoría de la gente pensaba que era particularmente olvidadizo, pero yo estaba convencido que era una manía más de Manies. Era demasiado avispado como para tener estos vacíos de memoria.

and being deplorably absent-minded, he failed to notify either his brother-in-law William Ashton, or any of his relatives in England, that he was now a father – and a widower.
Y como era sumamente descuidado y olvidadizo, se descuidó de comunicar a su cuñado William Ashton y a sus parientes en Inglaterra que ahora era padre… y viudo.

Holding back a growing part of herself made her parents seem contemptibly stupid, and though she could never allow herself to feel superior to Alexandra, it was true that, as her visions of virtue and self-sacrifice developed, the older witch seemed increasingly sleepy, absent-minded, and passive.
Al guardarse una parte de sí misma cada vez mayor, sus padres comenzaron a parecerle despreciablemente estúpidos, y aunque nunca se habría permitido sentirse superior a Alexandra, lo cierto era que, a medida que se desarrollaban sus visiones de virtud y autosacrificio, la bruja de mayor edad le parecía cada vez más somnolienta, pasiva y olvidadiza.